Slides from Drupal Lviv Cafe presentation that cover investigation of the Drupal communities of Eastern Europe and top contributors statistic.

1. Analysis of Drupal Developers from
Eastern Europe and the Role of
Ukrainian Drupal Community
Author: Anatoliy Poliakov,
DOOR3

2. History of the Communities
for the last 15 years

3. Main goals of this investigation
1. Calculate developer public activity at drupal.org projects.
2. Analyze count and quality of developers in Ukraine.
3. Compare our Drupal community with neighboring countries
communities.
4. Investigate role of our Drupal community at global drupal
market (compare with all Europe countries, compare with all
world).
5. Based on the current situation make steps for rapid growth of
Drupal community in the world.

4. Countries that are analysed
1. Ukraine
2. Belarus
3. Russian Federation
4. Poland
5. Czech Respublic
6. Slovakia
7. Hungary
8. Romania
9. Moldova
10.Latvia
11.Bulgaria

5. Top contributors at the Eastern Europe
# COUNTRY COUNT
1 Hungary 28
2 Russian Federation 25
3 Ukraine 21
4 Belarus 9
5 Poland 7
6 Estonia 6
7 Romania 2
8 Moldova 2

6. Country statistic: Ukraine
Total count of users 7823
Active cmmiters count 298 (4%)
Active commenters 1410 (18%)

7. Top 10 of Ukrainian contributors

8. Companies statistics

9. Interesting facts
Ukrainians are the maintainers of more than 150 actively used modules:
1. Date (400k)
2. Draggable_views (53k)
3. Captcha (255k)
4. Location (60k)
5. Webform (450k)
6. Views Nivo Slider (18 220)
7. Term merge (4 291)
8. NovaPoshta
9. FAQ (34 617)
10. AES_encription (6800)
11. CRM_core (1090)
12. vkcrossposter (1400)
13. Search API (73k)

10. Interesting facts
Ukrainian based companies are most active and produce tha largest count of new developers to the
market.
InternetDevels
LembergSolution
Amgrade
BlinkReaction

11. Individual membership statistic
Individual Member at drupal.org - a
person that pays donations for making
Drupal better.
As usual, this person is tightly connected
with Drupal world.

12. Conclusion 1
Ukrainian Drupal Community has high position at
the communities of the Eastern Europe.
COUNTRY TOTAL USERS ACTIVE COMMITERS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
Russian Federation 18500 349 20
Poland 8500 120 5
Ukraine 7800 307 40
Hungary 7100 151 10
Romania 6200 34 13

13. Conclusion 2
Eastern Europe communities has faced with a “new
users” crisis.

14. Conclusion 3
Many of the top contributors at all investigated
countries has migrated to the Western Europe/USA

15. Conclusion 4
We need to develop infrastructure for better invlolving
of newbies to the Drupal.org contributions.

16. Conclusion 5
Drupal.org contributions promotes Ukrainian market in
the world.
Ask developers about their contribution at the
interview.

17. Conclusions for HR specialists
● This investigation is developed for better work with community but also could be used
by HR specialists for searching/reviewing new workers at their companies.
● You could find and analyse your talent much faster.
● You could ask developers from other countries for migration to/from Ukraine.
● You could answer to your CEO how your company is displayed at the local Drupal
community.

18. Next steps
1. Start process of investigation of all Europe countries.
2. Analyse comments at drupal.org topics threads.
3. Make real-time analytics for each country, grouped by weeks.
4. Search for Drupal QA, Drupal Front end and Drupal managers users.
5. Make this project public for all users (developers and HR’s).
6. Use this investigation in the growth of Ukrainian Drupal community/market.

19. Stay in touch
Feel free to connect to our github team at:
https://github.com/drupal-ukraine/ppdorg
This project is publishing reports to:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/104220905217/

20. See you...
at the
Kyiv Drupal Camp 2016
June 4-5
http://camp16.drupal.ua

21. Contacts
anatoliy.polyakov@door3.com
Twitter: AnPoliakov
FB: anatoliy.polyakov
http://polyakov.tech